TY - JFULL AU - Sirous Panahi and Jason Watson and Helen Partridge PY - 2012/5/ TI - Social Media and Tacit Knowledge Sharing: Developing a Conceptual Model T2 - International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences SP - 647 EP - 655 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/5672 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 64, 2012 N2 - With the advent of social web initiatives, some argued that these new emerging tools might be useful in tacit knowledge sharing through providing interactive and collaborative technologies. However, there is still a poverty of literature to understand how and what might be the contributions of social media in facilitating tacit knowledge sharing. Therefore, this paper is intended to theoretically investigate and map social media concepts and characteristics with tacit knowledge creation and sharing requirements. By conducting a systematic literature review, five major requirements found that need to be present in an environment that involves tacit knowledge sharing. These requirements have been analyzed against social media concepts and characteristics to see how they map together. The results showed that social media have abilities to comply some of the main requirements of tacit knowledge sharing. The relationships have been illustrated in a conceptual framework, suggesting further empirical studies to acknowledge findings of this study. ER -